Right, that has been an interesting romp around in struts.
Jeromy, thanks for pointing me in the right direction and making me
think. I went back to basics, bit the bullet and improved my javascript
jedi abilities by installing firebug. That has really helped.
If this might help anyone else one day in the future, here's what
happened..
It turns out my client validation was NOT working quite right. There
were two issues:
1.) validation.js was missing in my html, I wasn't using <sx:head> which
seems to be the only tag that generates a src path to it, I was using
<s:head> which afaik was my only choice in 2.0.11.1. Upgrading to 2.1.2
resolved this.
I had to put this in manually:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/myapp/struts/xhtml/validation.js">
</script>
2.) I discovered that some of my validation regex was treated slightly
differently in js and in java (I had to mess around with grep on the
command line to experiment a bit, but grep regex worked the same as js
regex), thus meaning that some validation rules were never caught
client-side and were only being caught server-side, hence the validation
inconsistency I encountered. The server side validation then led to my
form element population problem on the next page after the initial form.
With client side validation working well I can use the action tags to
populate form elements as much as I want again.
So, does anyone have any idea why using an action won't populate form
elements after validation returns the form input? (the listAll method is
never invoked in the example below)
Like so:
> <s:action namespace="/admin" name="crud.Group.listAll"
id="groupAction"/>
>
> ...
>
> <s:select label="Group" name="user.group.id" value="%{user.group.id}"
> list="%{#groupAction.list}" listKey="id" listValue="name"/>
Many thanks for your assistance.
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